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Late Works of J. M. W. Turner The Artist and his Critics
ISBN: HB: 9781913107161, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a highly personal final vision that ranks with the late styles of the greatest artists. I...
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Morozov The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300249828, Yale University Press, October 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezann...
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Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...
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Monet and Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.
In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...
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James Ensor Chronicle of His Life, 1860-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780300253979, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2020
224 pp., 24.8x20 cm, 200 illus.
The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century. Daring and socially engaged, Ensor included po...
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Making the Modern Artist Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781913107154, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 illus.
The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to scrutiny? "Making the Modern Artis...
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Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82
ISBN: HB: 9780300250473, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to the Swiss art historian Heinrich W...
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Living Pictures Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300247572, Yale University Press, July 2020
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 95 colour illus.
When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Weste...
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America's Impressionism Echoes of a Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300247701, Yale University Press, June 2020
192 pp., 27.4x25.4 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.
From the late 19th century to the Second World War, American painters adapted Impressionism to their own ends, shaping one of the most enduring, complex, and contradictory styles of art ever produced in the United States. This comprehensive book pres...
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Bernini's Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300247732, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus.
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti – the master of the previous age. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first co...
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